Big Cypress Tree State Park

Named for a bald cypress that was the largest in the United States until lightning killed it in July 1976. The park kept the bottomland forest around it: 330 acres, 270 of them a state natural area, with a boardwalk and under two miles of short trails.

Weakley CountyGreenfieldOpenChecked October 20, 2026

2 hr 45 min

By car from the Public Square, 148 mi

330

Acres

26,303

Visitors in fiscal 2022

Trails listed, 1.7 miles

Day

Day use only

Activities the state lists

The black dot is Big Cypress Tree State Park; the square is Franklin. The grey dots are the other state parks. All of them, by drive time.

What's there

Things to do

Hiking

The trails

Trails at Big Cypress Tree State Park, as the state lists them
Trail	Miles	Difficulty	Surface	Now
Hunter's Trail	0.25	—	Natural	Open
Paved Path	0.55	Easy	Paved	Open
Paved Path to Boardwalk	0.15	Easy	Paved	Open
River Trail	0.5	—	Natural	Closed
River Trail Boardwalk	0.2	Moderate	Natural	Open

As the park's hiking page lists them on October 20, 2026. Lengths are one way unless the trail is a loop, and some trails share ground, so the total is the sum of the list, not the miles on the ground.

Getting there

295 Big Cypress Road, Greenfield, TN 38230
Park office: 1-731-235-2700
The park's page at Tennessee State Parks

Campsites, cabins and lodge rooms are booked online through the park's page or by phone at 1-888-867-2757, the state's reservation line.

Nearby

Middle Fork Bottoms State Park30 miles away as the crow flies · 2 hr 10 min from Franklin
Reelfoot Lake State Park32 miles away as the crow flies · 3 hr 25 min from Franklin
Natchez Trace State Park44 miles away as the crow flies · 1 hr 30 min from Franklin
Paris Landing State Park48 miles away as the crow flies · 2 hr 10 min from Franklin

How we know

Every fact on this page but the summary at the top is the state's, read on the date above, except the drive: that is Valhalla's route on OpenStreetMap's roads from Franklin's Public Square to the park office, with no traffic, rounded to five minutes. Visits are the park plan's count for the year named, mostly from traffic counters. How the guide was made.

The park. Tennessee State Parks: the Find a Park list, the park's own page, its hiking page, read October 20, 2026.
Acres. The park's strategic management plan.
Visitors. The park's strategic management plan, its site fact sheet for fiscal 2022 (July 2021 to June 2022).

All 69 parks, by drive time